“You have to take into account the history of race and surveillance when you're talking about any new predictive policing technology...Every time we have seen an innovation of surveillance, we've turned it on communities of color and poor people first.”

“This idea that only a few people--who happen to be white men--created change, to me that was a pretty limiting history. So I was really writing against this 'founding fathers' story of digital culture.”

“That experience of being in this country as an immigrant, both inside and outside, having to adopt certain ways of thinking and having to erase other ways of thinking, other parts of me that cannot be rendered in this new context, I think that's where this idea [of nodocentrism] came from.”

“There are a lot of horrifying things lurking in the autocomplete field...People used to confess to their priest or some sort of trusted figure and now people spell out their secrets to the search bar, to the machine.”

"This is a problem that cannot really be solved using a computer itself. This is something that humans have to discuss and ultimately decide on...This is a conversation that all of society has to engage in.”